Photography

See The Lights

Posted by Wes Allen on

I don’t care for the Christmas season in general, but I do like seeing how people decorate for the holidays. It gives me a chance to practice taking some night photography.

I’m not into the big and gaudy displays, it just isn’t my style. Instead, I like clean and simple decorations 1, which is also how I treat design in general.

I was in the mood to look for simple and clean decorations last night when I headed out after dark with my neighbor to capture a particular tree, hoping the snow had managed to remain on its branches. I was thwarted in this pursuit 2, but was afforded to take the opportunity to photograph some of the clean and simple decorations I found around my home. My favorite of these shots is below.

Clean and Simple Christmas Lights
Nikon D7000 with 18-105mm lens • ISO 800 • 30mm • ƒ/4.5 • 1/100 sec
  1. My childhood home was a stone-faced house which was illuminated by a single spotlight. Every year my parents hung a wreath right at the focal point of the light, and it remains my favorite decoration of all time. ↩
  2. Darn Sun melting stuff. That will be the only time I’ll say that line. ↩

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  1. Peg Horton's avatar Peg Horton says:
    December 12, 2017 at 7:06 pm

    Growing up in Moorestown. The only decoration was the nativity scene that I painted on each window and the tree inside decorated with with a few very old Christmas balls and paper chains we made in school.

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